Despite siege, new shopping center in Strip opened its doors last Saturday to enthusiastic crowds, offering international brands, much-needed air-conditioning. Mall’s manager promises affordable prices tailored for local residents
Ali Waked
Ynetnews - 20 July 2010
While Hamas continues to demand a full lifting of the blockade, the Gaza market seems to be doing alright. Gaza [...]
by Saed Bannoura –
IMEMC & Agencies - 15 January 2010
Egypt announced its intention to build a harbor along its sea border with the Gaza Strip in order to be used by Egyptian navy patrols to monitor the Egyptian side of the Rafah shore.
The harbor dock would be 10 meters deep and extends for 25 meters [...]
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Al Jazeera and agencies - 30 December 2009
Members of an international group gathered in Cairo to protest against the siege of Gaza have rejected an Egyptian offer to allow 100 of them entry into the Palestinian territory.
Organisers of the Gaza Freedom March (GFM), which is comprised of 1,300 people from 42 different countries, declined the offer [...]
Pam Rasmussen
The Electronic Intifada – 29 December 2009
This time is clearly different.
I have traveled to Gaza twice this year, in groups ranging from 40 to 60 persons, and although there was a lot of behind-the-scenes work involved in “greasing the wheels” with the Egyptian authorities, we pretty much sailed in. CODEPINK (the group that organized [...]
Palestinians say hundreds of scholarship recipients unable to leave due to Israeli siege
Yaheli Moran Zelikovich
Ynet News 21 October 2009
With the 2009-2010 academic year under way, 838 Palestinian university students are still waiting for the authorization that will enable them to leave the Gaza Strip in favor of overseas universities.
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Ma’an News – 7 October 2009
Jerusalem – Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Old City are describing it as a community “under siege” as Israeli forces continue to operate in large numbers fearing renewed demonstrations.
Restrictions in the city were so severe Wednesday that children were prevented from reaching schools in the Old City.
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by Suzanne Morrison
Published on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
Since June 2007 the Israeli government has imposed almost complete closure over the Gaza Strip. The siege prevents nearly all movement of people or goods to and from the coastal region with only minimal amounts of humanitarian provisions inconsistently allowed in. With the exception of [...]
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By EMILY RATNER
Emily Ratner is an organizer and mediamaker based in New Orleans. She is currently traveling in Gaza with a delegation of journalists, organizers and human rights workers from the US South.She can be reached at emily@nolahumanrights.org and www.patoisfilmfest.org
CounterPunch June 26-28, 2009
Rafah.
Today I went to the tunnels in Rafah. I climbed into [...]
Ma’an/Agencies – Date: 25 / 06 / 2009 Time: 09:50
Bethlehem – A team of international rights advocates who had planned to set sail to Gaza postponed their journey on Thursday after Cypriot authorities did not give them permission to leave.
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Al Jazeera. Friday, May 15, 2009
Firas Mazloom was born in Gaza just as Israel started its siege on the impoverished Palestinian territory two years ago.
Like others in Gaza, Israeli restrictions prevented him from getting the medical treatment he needed.
Al Jazeera’s Casey Kauffman reports on the race against time to save two-year-old Firas.
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